Abegail Pulma Tongco, PhD has been in the HR and OD practice for more than 15 years. As an HR and OD consultant and trainer; she has been exposed to companies in the banking and finance, BPO, KPO, energy, water utility, academe, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction and engineering, website and software development, architectural and engineering consulting, real estate development, mining, hospitality, printing and publishing industries.

She has implemented consulting projects for GOCCs, government agencies and local government units, as well. She is the Training and Consulting Division Director and concurrently also the VisMin Regional Director of the Profiles Group of Companies.

She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Philippine Society for Talent Development (PSTD) National as the Research Committee Chairman. She is a certified Shared Leadership Coach and Team Coach, PxT, DISC and Genos EI practitioner.

She is likewise a certified Kahoot content creator. She graduated with a college degree in Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences – Psychology.

She earned her graduate degrees of Masters in Business Management and PhD in Organization Development.

Mary Donnavel Libron-Buloron, PhD (Cand.), RPm

Mary Donnavel A. Libron-Buloron is a licensed Psychometrician and has a Master’s degree in Guidance and Counseling. She is also currently working towards her Ph.D in Social Psychology. She is a Certified Learning and Development Professional and a DISC Flow Emotional Intelligence Certified Practitioner. Her career experience is a mix of academe and industry practice geared towards training, learning, and development.

After graduating cum laude with a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of the Philippines Cebu, she worked in a local HR consulting firm as Talent Development Officer. She also worked as the Training Officer of a non-government organization in Cebu where she set-up the training unit in one of their focus areas. She was responsible for overseeing and implementing the training processes from Training Needs Analysis, Module Development, Program Implementation, and Post Program evaluation.

Aside from these, she created the competency-based training and performance management system, and the competency-based succession planning for the employees of the organization. Her corporate HR experience also helped her in her stint as Training Evaluation System consultant for a Competency-based training program.

Looking for other opportunities outside of the HR industry, she went on to becoming a college professor in one of the prestigious local college in Cebu. In her 10 years academic, she taught major subjects in Psychology. Aside from teaching, she also functioned as the college department’s guidance personnel and the Psychology Program head for the year 2020-2021.

Currently, she is the Learning and Development Manager of People Dynamics, Inc. In her role she develops modules for various training programs. She also developed a leadership assessment tool and assessed employees for a Leadership Development Program. She is also managing several consulting and research projects with the private and public sector clients of the organization.